Casting News: Dyer, Cox, Loren

Assassin
Danny Dyer is set to star in the London-set hitman thriller "Assassin" for Richwater Films and Silver Leaf Pictures. Jonathan Sothcott and J.K. Amalou will produce and shooting begins in August.

Dyer plays a professional contract killer who compromises himself when he realizes that his latest victim is the estranged father of the girl he has fallen in love with. Amalou penned the script and will also direct. [Source: Heat Vision]